Recently the New York Public Library published a list of their choices for the top 100 children’s books from the last 100 years. We took a look at the books we have available via Open Library, and it turns … Continue reading →

Photo storage and organization service Trovebox announced today that they added support for storing your photos at archive.org. Or as they put it: Check out their announcement. We’re excited to host their patrons’ photos and keep them safe.

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Internet Archive crawls and saves web pages and makes them available for viewing through the Wayback Machine because we believe in the importance of archiving digital artifacts for future generations to learn from. In the process, of course, we accumulate … Continue reading →

A/V Geeks has done a lot of digitization of old film for The Internet Archive. They are trying to raise funds to digitize many more hours of footage to put up on archive.org which will be free to view and … Continue reading →

It was announced today that HTTP Archive has become part of Internet Archive. The Internet Archive provides an archive of web site content through the Wayback Machine, but we do not capture data about the performance of web sites. Steve … Continue reading →

With the help of the Internet Archive and Ron Jenkins, a theater professor at Wesleyan University, the Balinese are leading the world as the first culture to have their entire literature go online. The documents are centuries-old lontar palm leaves … Continue reading →

What is an item? An item is a logical “thing” that we present on one web page on archive.org. An item may be one video file along with scans of the DVD cover, one book, one audio file, or a … Continue reading →

With the U.S. Census Bureau beginning to release statistics from the 2010 census. It seems a good time to mention that Internet Archive has a complete set of the available U.S. Census back to the first one in 1790: From … Continue reading →

I was in Mexico City a couple of weeks ago, and we went to Plaza Garibaldi where all of the mariachi hang out, waiting to be hired. There are great bars on the plaza where you can sip tequila (NOT … Continue reading →